byMax Planck Society Fast-accumulating data seem to indicate that our close cousins, the Neanderthals, were much more similar to us than imagined even a decade ago. But did they have anything like modern speech and language? And if so, what are the implications for understanding present-day l...
byMax Planck Society Fast-accumulating data seem to indicate that our close cousins, the Neanderthals, were much more similar to us than imagined even a decade ago. But did they have anything like modern speech and language? And if so, what are the implications for understanding present-day l...
Neanderthals shared speech and language with modern humansMax Planck Society
important to distinguish that the difference is a quantitative difference, and not a qualitative one, since “if one accepts the monistic mechanism of contemporary evolutionary theory, then whatever differences that are between humans and non-human animals must be of degree and not of kind” (Goodw...
But there were evidently degrees of difference from one place to another as to howantagonisticwas their relationship to that order. If they served as mercenaries, they might have a relationship to the state that was defined by some kind of formal agreement. Some Biblical scholars believe that th...